Tom Junod Quotes

I was probably spoilt, if I'm being totally honest.

They are sick that surfeit with too much, as they that starve with nothing.

If one sins against the laws of proportion and gives something too big to something too small to carry it - too big sails to too small a ship, too big meals to too small a body, too big powers to too small a soul - the result is bound to be a complete upset. In an outburst of hubris the overfed body will rush into sickness, while the jack-in-office will rush into the unrighteousness that hubris always breeds.

… vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!

Nothing brings more pain than too much pleasure; nothing more bondage than too much liberty.

I'm frightened of my innate vanity. I mean: the suits lined with scarves? Even I know the warning signs. I could quite easily end up in a tiny Playboy mansion, all on my own.

I already own more than any human being needs.

I don't understand this pathetic need for luxuries.

A lot of the time, excess on a film set is just damaging.

You can think you're living in the moment and you're thankful, but when somebody comes face to face with you and says, 'I just lost my child,' or 'I have months to live, and thank you...' I'm of course sad for them, but I'm thankful that I gave them a gift and they're giving me a gift.

I have more than 100 pairs of Jimmy Choos and I feel very guilty about it.

You can be selfish by being too unselfish at times.

OK, I'm as lazy as the next guy. Full disclosure. And I often feel guilty about it.

I think that, pretty much, any good thing taken to extremes can become a bad thing.

The world is awaiting your gift - all you have to do is show up with the right intention!

Every time I reform in one direction I go overboard in another.

Be a gift to everyone who enters your life, and to everyone whose life you enter. Be careful not to enter another's life if you cannot be a gift. (You can always be a gift, because you always are the gift - yet sometimes you don't let yourself know that.)

Too much is unwholesome.

I know my limit. I just keep passing out before I reach it.

Wretched excess is an unfortunate human trait that turns a perfectly good idea such as Christmas into a frenzy of last-minute shopping.

Women are not taught to get a massage or do anything for ourselves because it makes us feel extraordinarily guilty. But the more we can fill ourselves up with things that make us happy, the happier we'll be, the happier our children will be, the more we have to give, and the more loving we'll be.

Men who only live to eat.

Profusion gives pleasure up to a point; then we become squeamish.

It came to my house. It sat on my shoulders. Your shadow is yours. I told it so. I said it was yours. I have carried it with me too long. I give it back.

One wit, like a knuckle of ham in soup, gives a zest and flavour to the dish, but more than one serves only to spoil the pottage.